Ascent Trip Report

The gate near Parsons Creek Road was open, and you can drive a passenger car to the 4-way junction about 1/2 mile south of the summit. From there, hike over berms and go north on a narrow, more overgrown road. Avoid the sketchy first left fork you reach, and near the summit take the uphill fork that goes right and starts to curve around. At the switchback, just before a big puddle/flat spot, go into the brush. Look for a Gatorade bottle placed upside down on a branch of a fallen log--this is a key marker. It's about 10-20 feet from the road, in some brush, on the back side of the big fallen tree. From there, a narrow but perfectly good path leads uphill through what would otherwise be bad brush. The real key is that the path soon leads to a giant knotted manila rope that is very useful when hauling yourself uphill. There are two of these ropes, and since the slope was steep and slippery due to snow, the ropes helped a lot. At the top of the second rope you are pretty much right on the S Summit of Anderson.

To get to the north summit, bushwhack a short way down into a pronounced trench and then up the other side--lots of closely spaced trees, but staying to the west helps, close to the ridgeline. The summits are pretty close. We could clearly see there was nothing higher further north when we were on the N summit.

We saw several hunters along the road and we guessed the gate is open during the fall for their benefit.

This peak was my first ever intentional Earlization--we actually parked near 2200' on a perfectly good road and rode mountain bikes up to the 4-way junction south of the peak. At first the weather was OK, but while we were on top it started snowing pretty nicely.

Summary Total Data

Elevation Gain:

1164 ft / 355 m

Route:

A1000 Road

Trailhead:

A1000 Road 2200 ft / 670 m

Quality:

3 (on a subjective 1-10 scale)

Route Conditions:

Road Hike, Unmaintained Trail, Bushwhack, Snow on Ground

Gear Used:

Bicycle, Rope

Weather:

Snowing, Cool, Breezy, Low Clouds

GPS Data for Ascent/Trip

GPS Waypoints - Hover or click to see name and lat/longPeaks: climbed and unclimbed by Greg SlaydenClick Here for a Full Screen MapNote: GPS Tracks may not be accurate, and may not show the best route. Do not follow this route blindly. Conditions change frequently. Use of a GPS unit in the outdoors, even with a pre-loaded track, is no substitute for experience and good judgment. Peakbagger.com accepts NO resposibility or liability from use of this data.